November 18, 2011 @ 11:40am • Link Post • Tweet this • Share on Facebook
Hispanics make up nearly half of all Texas births in 2010, U.S. says →
Hispanic births accounted for nearly half of the state’s 386,096 births in 2010, according to a federal report Thursday showing the birth rate in Texas exceeding all states but Alaska and Utah. Nationally, the birth rate declined for all races and most age groups.
The figures offer more evidence of the impact of Hispanic growth in Texas, which led the nation in population growth over the past decade, increasing 20.6 percent — more than twice as fast as that of the nation as a whole. Texas grew by 4.3 million since 2000 to hit the 25.1 million mark in 2010. Hispanics accounted for two-thirds of that growth.
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